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Storms brought thunder, rain and winds through Campbell County Monday.
“We were kind of dreading them (winds),” said Linden Shelton, with LaFollette Utilities operations.
Storms came through Campbell County around 5 a.m.
“Wind got up pretty good,” Shelton said. However, during the afternoon, when weather.com put Campbell County under a wind advisory, winds only blew at about 25 miles per hour, Shelton said. And the winds didn’t cause outages, Shelton said.

At its Dec. 10 meeting, the budget and finance committee approved 21 budget resolutions.
Among these was a resolution to use money from state grants to fund an archery program in the school system.
“Jimmie Jeffries worked on this,” committee member Tom Hatmaker said. “He was the driving force behind this.”
Gail Stanley is the instructor for the program.

Santa Claus will visit children at the LaFollette Public Library on Dec. 19 at 1 p.m.
“It’s going to be great,” library director Nancy Green said. “Just encourage everyone to come out and visit with Santa.”
Santa will come to the children’s section of the library with Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, Frosty and Mickey Mouse. He will greet the children who come to meet him and take gift requests.
“We’re hoping we’ll be able to get him to read a story,” Green said.

In a letter, Montclair Technologies expressed intentions of purchasing the Taylor Machine Shop Building in Jellico and some adjacent property. While Jellico has agreed to terms, county leaders are a little more hesitant.